PPE-related physical health issues: impacts on work performance of the healthcare workers in hospital settings during the outbreak of COVID-19: A literature review.
Selvathasan, Murugathasan (2022)
2022
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The purpose of this literature review is to explore what are the causes of physical health related issues from wearing PPE and how does the use of PPE affect healthcare workers’ work performance.
Physical health related issues from wearing PPE are new emerging problems since the outbreak of COVID-19. This thesis finds out what are the causes and factors that affect the physical health and work performance of the healthcare workers. To preserve the health and safety of the healthcare workers, the “Health Promotion” theory by Nola J. Pender plays the role of theoretical framework to identify the issues of wearing PPE.
Inductive research method is done by coding, classifying, and separating into themes from the articles chosen from Google Scholar. 10 articles were chosen after the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results from the articles highlighted the use of PPE for prolonged periods in hot or intensive environment leading to headaches, skin problems, fatigue, breathlessness, and discomfort. The reason for poor work performance by the healthcare workers was the prolonged period causing bad vision, hard to communicate, wrong size of PPE use, & hard to handle tools. This thesis helps the health organizations to identify issues from the use of PPE.
Physical health related issues from wearing PPE are new emerging problems since the outbreak of COVID-19. This thesis finds out what are the causes and factors that affect the physical health and work performance of the healthcare workers. To preserve the health and safety of the healthcare workers, the “Health Promotion” theory by Nola J. Pender plays the role of theoretical framework to identify the issues of wearing PPE.
Inductive research method is done by coding, classifying, and separating into themes from the articles chosen from Google Scholar. 10 articles were chosen after the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results from the articles highlighted the use of PPE for prolonged periods in hot or intensive environment leading to headaches, skin problems, fatigue, breathlessness, and discomfort. The reason for poor work performance by the healthcare workers was the prolonged period causing bad vision, hard to communicate, wrong size of PPE use, & hard to handle tools. This thesis helps the health organizations to identify issues from the use of PPE.